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Reza Pahlavi's trip to Israel and his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be part of his campaign to garner support for regime change in Iran, as the opposition camps were scrambling for unity.
In the last few years the European attitude toward Iran has shifted from particularly positive to quite negative.
The hardliners in Iran have renewed calls for reducing diplomatic ties with United Kingdom for London's "anti-Iranian moves". An Iranian lawmaker said that the Islamic Republic should reduce its ties with UK with respect to the "serious implementation" of a 2011 law that legislatively allows Tehran to reduce diplomatic relations with London. WATCH | UK to proscribe Iran's revolutionary guard as a terror group
Although it is still unclear if the Supreme Leader will approve the necessary compromises, regime officials are maximizing their room for maneuver by preparing the country either way—assuming the economy doesn’t force their hand.
The departure of Hossein Taeb from his post as the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Intelligence Organization triggered a wave of reshuffling in the command structure of the guardsmen. But the story is more than just a reaction to Iran’s unsuccessful terrorist targeting of Israelis in Turkey and counterintelligence lapses. There are internal power struggles and a natural maturation of the Islamic Republic’s security structure that also likely figured into the decision to remove Taeb.